Friends of Zoe Fleming, the 16-year-old girl who died after being shot in Greensboro on Monday, gathered on Wednesday night to remember her and call for an end to gun violence.

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Updated: 10:40 PM EDT Mar 28, 2018

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Friends of teenage shooting victim remember her during vigil

Friends of Zoe Fleming, the 16-year-old girl who died after being shot in Greensboro on Monday, gathered on Wednesday night to remember her and call for an end to gun violence.

Friends of Zoe Fleming, the 16-year-old girl who died after being shot in Greensboro on Monday, gathered on Wednesday night to remember her and call for an end to gun violence.

“We just marched the other day for problems with gun violence and we just lost this girl. I don’t know how long it’s going to take the world to learn that guns are not the way,” said Jayden Joyce, a classmate of Zoe’s at Western Guilford High School. Joyce made this remark during the vigil.

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Friends of Zoe Fleming say she was a “ball of energy” who always tried to make people laugh and smile. They say they are still trying to come to terms with the fact they’ll never see Zoe again.

“It hurts to know I will never see her walk in the hallway again or call my phone, I even called her phone yesterday just to hear her voice and I couldn’t,” said Jazlyn Bell, who went to school with Zoe.

“It’s just hard to know that she’s really gone. It’s hard for me to sleep just because I’m thinking about texting her but she won’t respond, just to tell her I love her one more time,” said Tommi Pierson, another friend of Zoe.

“I’m never going to see her again. I’m never going to see her walk around school. I’m never going to see her hair. It’s like little things you recognize when you see a person. I don’t know, it’s going to take some time,” Joyce said.

Friends of Zoe as well as neighbors who heard the gunshots on Monday organized the candlelight vigil on Wednesday.

Family members were unable to attend the vigil because they had other affairs to attend to following their loved one’s death. However, WXII 12 News spoke with Zoe’s older sister, Savasia Fleming, on Wednesday.

“I know she’s in heaven but nobody wants to get a phone call of someone saying you’re 16 year old sister is dying,” said Fleming.

Fleming says seeing her sister in the hospital was the most difficult moment of her life.

“As I first walked in I couldn’t even stand it, I had to walk out and had to come back. It was the worst experience and most devastating thing I’ve experienced.”